Airfield Lighting Control Solutions for Small and Mid

Airfield Lighting Control Solutions
for Small and Mid-Size Airports
Airport Systems
A Siemens Company
Realtime
control and
monitoring
with ALCS
Control and status monitoring of a wide range of
airfield lighting systems and equipment to enhance
safety, efficiency, maintainability and reliability of
airside operations – to meet this request from airports
worldwide, Siemens/ADB provides the adequate solution:
a modular designed Airfield Lighting Control System (ALCS),
based on reliable and high-speed data acquisition, tailored to
individual airport requirements.
Through the implementation
of an ALCS, flexible and continuous control and monitoring of airfield ground lighting
components is provided to
ATC staff. Switching of individual lighting functions as
well as selective routing/
switching of taxiways will
contribute to improve the
overall operational efficiency
and safety. Also, maintenance
information will be generated
by the system and made
available to the maintenance
staff, in order to improve the
overall maintenance output.
All in all, Siemens/ADB
solutions for ALCS assist
airports worldwide in upgrading the performance of
their airside movement area.
ALCS functionality
The ALCS for small to medium-sized airports can
provide the following functionality:
• control and monitoring of
approach and runway
lighting;
• control and monitoring of
taxiway lighting (including
routing selection, stopbar
and lead-on control);
• control and monitoring of
apron floodlighting;
• interface with weather
information system,
allowing automatic
adjustment of lighting
systems to weather/
visibility conditions;
• interface with individual
lamp control and monitoring system (BRITE);
• maintenance information
system;
• status overview of all
communication lines
between HMIs in ATC
tower, maintenance room
and substations;
• status overview of
redundant field buses in
substations for communication to various
lighting systems;
• status overview of
substation equipment
(for each specific CCR
or auxiliary device).
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Taking the large
view
Medium
converter
Fiberoptics
network
Medium
converter
Maintenance
service HMI
(optional)
ATC PC
(HMI)
Local controller PC for communication to regulators (via J-Bus)
ATC Tower
MCR 1
MCR 2
Local controller PC for communication to regulators (via optional
redundant J-Bus)
Medium
converter
I/O
(optional SIMATIC S-7)
Maintenance
PC (HMI)
Maintenance Center
MCR 3
AUX
Interface cabinet
Substation
ALCS system overview
In general, an ALCS consists
of individual control cabinets
or communication boxes on
designated locations (according to specific requirements), interconnected by a
fiber-optics network. An
ALCS typically comprises
the following elements:
• PC workstations with HMI
software, located in the ATC
tower, the maintenance
room and in each of the
substations (optional);
• substation cabinets
(including one PC workstation for the local control
and monitoring of the MCR
and optional I/O module for
auxiliary circuits;
• communications network,
including fiber optics
connecting the tower with
the substations.
Airport Overview Window
functionality
• Providing a graphical layout
of the complete airport, the
status of all relevant airfield
ground lighting systems is
presented on one screen.
• Various lighting functions
can be switched on/off or
their intensity controlled via
a touch-screen monitor or
mouse commands.
Approach directions and
taxiway routing can be
selected.
• By accepting information
from the weather information system, the system can
be adapted easily to
changing visibility conditions. Intensity of individual
lighting systems can be
adapted as well, to the
request of pilots.
System Status Overview
functionality
This window provides an
overview of the entire ALCS,
indicating the HMI computer
that is in command, status
monitoring of local controllers,
status monitoring of communication links from HMI computers to substations and
specific field buses.
This window also allows for
change-over of command
between the ATC HMI computer and the maintenance
HMI computer.
User benefits
This type of ALCS provides
the following benefits to its
users:
• the modular and configurable design provides an
optimal solution for small
and medium-sized airports
(cost-effective design using standard software
modules);
• easy upgrade possibility;
• improved efficiency, safety,
availability and reliability at
the airport;
• functional redundancy can
be included where required;
Substation Equipment
Overview functionality
Each device (CCR or other) in
a specific substation is
represented by an individual
icon in the window below. A
clear overview of the status
is indicated through changes
in the color of the icon.
By clicking on the device icon,
a detailed object view pops
up explaining current alarms
and current equipment status.
• fast response times in
control and monitoring of
the airfield lighting system;
• user-friendly customertailored HMI, providing full
airport status on one
comprehensive screen;
• possibility to interconnect
CCRs through one (or two
redundant) serial communication buses (J-Bus), reducing the use of cabling
drastically;
• extensive equipment status
data are available for
maintenance purposes,
thanks to logging of alarms;
• easy interfacing possibilities with other airport
(information) systems;
• easy interfacing with
individual lamp control &
monitoring systems;
• system software based on
SIMATIC WinCC, enabling
worldwide and experienced support from local
Siemens/ADB offices;
• use of airport philosophy
know-how, through more
than 50 years of experience
of Siemens/ADB.
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Alarm handling
The ALCS entails a number
of screens that assure the
operator being informed of
the sent alarm-messages/
commands and allows the
printing of system history. The
operator or the maintenance
staff must acknowledge
actual alarms, to certify that
the problem has been seen
and/or settled.
Also, the alarm log window
allows the operator or the
maintenance staff to visualize
a history of the alarms and
decisions of the control
system. An example is
pictured above.
Technical Characteristics
• industrially hardened PCs;
• redundant field bus connection;
• Ethernet 100 MB/sec communication between
various locations;
• redundant network can be provided as an option;
• redundant HMI is standard (assuming both HMI
computers are in the tower);
• PCs can be provided with touch-screen monitors
for easy control.
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Germany
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